Nima Elyassi-Rad

Investor at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

“Nima is an investor at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, an early stage fund focused on helping founders build independent businesses. He has over a decade of business development and operations experience, having helped scale businesses from $0 to $10MM and $1B to $2B in revenue.

Most recently, he was an EIR at Canvas Ventures. Prior, he was the Head of Business at Shippo, the leading shipping API for e-commerce. There he formed exclusive partnerships with the likes of GoDaddy and Weebly. Previously, he spent 2.5 years at Groupon, pre and post-IPO, in leadership roles in sales strategy and operations. As Head of Sales Intelligence, he directed the launch of Groupon’s largest Sales Campaign, resulting in a $300MM YoY increase in gross bookings.

Nima earned his B.A. in Communication Science and Rhetorical Studies from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and an MBA from the Liautaud Graduate School of Business at the University of Illinois—Chicago. He is an active member of the startup community having advised over 20 companies.”